Katrien Pype

Gebundenes Buch

The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

Beschreibung

How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.

Autor

Katrien Pype is an Associate Professor at University of Leuven and a Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of African Studies & Anthropology at University of Birmingham. She is co-initiator, with Miles Larmer and Rueben Loffman, of Congo Research Network, a platform that aims at enhancing dialogue and collaboration among Congo researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780857454942
• ISBN-10: 0857454943
• Artikelnr.: 37031451